NORTH Melbourne coach Brad Scott says a quick scan of the team the Western Bulldogs last night selected to face his Kangaroos should ensure they don’t rediscover the complacency which has marred their season.

The 14th-placed Dogs are out to become the seventh team to upset the Roos from below them on the ladder in captain Ryan Griffen’s 200th game on Sunday.

But Scott’s team was last night strengthened by the return of star playmaker Daniel Wells and damaging midfielder Levi Greenwood, but will again be without Lachie Hansen (hip).

“We’ve looked forward to having (Wells) back for the last 12 weeks now,” Scott said yesterday.

“Key-position players are hard to replace, but that being said you can put another guy that height to try and replace those guys. You can’t put another player in Daniel Wells’ position and ask him to play that position as well as Wellsy.

“So he’s unique in the way he goes about it.”

Scott said he expected another low-scoring affair after the sides played an ugly scrap in Round 2 which generated just four first-half goals under the Etihad Stadium roof before North kicked clear to win by 29 points.

The Dogs of late are 4-4 and Scott said they loomed as a greater threat than their ladder position indicates.

“Their good footy has been really good,” Scott said.

“Marcus Bontempelli is an exceptional young player. Jake Stringer has shown everyone what he can do.

“Jackson Macrae has had a great year.

“You add that on top of some young players in Nathan Hrovat coming in as well.

“You got to Robert Murphy, Ryan Griffen, Adam Cooney, Matthew Boyd, Shaun Higgins, Will Minson, the names speak for themselves and their performances are backing that up.”

Scott said North would use the remaining three matches to rediscover its peak form as the club aims to break its September drought.

The Roos have won just one final since 2000 and Scott said focusing on the ladder would lead to “reactive, slightly negative” footy.

“If we start looking at, ‘Gee, we’ve got to win this week to stay in it or you’ve got to hope someone else loses’ you take your eye of what’s important,” he said.

And the fifth-year coach refused to guarantee injury-plagued defender Nathan Grima a contract for next season.

“We’ve got a few players out of contract that we’ve got to make decisions on. Their form and fitness will go a long way to helping us make those decisions,” he said.

Grima, 29, returned from a three-month lay-off last week and said he was becoming increasingly nervous with every contract the Roos handed out.

“You’re doing the numbers in your head and thinking there’s only a couple of spots left,” he said on SEN.